Smith Welcomes 23 PhD Students

The Smith School is pleased to welcome 23 new doctoral students to the Smith School PhD program.

Accounting and Information Assurance
Robert Felix
Yifeng Zhou

Decision, Operations and Information Technology
Abrar Al-Hasan
He Chen
Carlos De La Rosa
Brad Greenwood
Jeffrey House
Prem Swaroop

Finance
Jeongmin “Mina” Lee
Wei Li
Onur Tosun

Logistics, Business and Public Policy
Jian-Yu “Fisher” Ke
Zuozheng Wang

Management and Organization
Scott Benjamin
Kristopher Deininger
Joo Hun “Joo” Han
Deborah Searcy
Rijing “April” Shen
Daniel Wong

Marketing
Jordan Etkin
John Healey
Heather Johnson
Qian Li

The Smith School’s PhD program, rated number 13 in the world and number 6 in the U.S. by theFinancial Times (2008), has grown in both numbers and reputation over the past ten years. The doctoral program is global and attracts a very diverse group of PhD students, with 112 students who represent 17 countries; about 69 percent are international and about 46 percent are women. New doctoral students this year have come from the United States, China, India, Kuwait, Turkey, South Korea, and Taiwan.

In the last three years, graduates from the doctoral program have been placed in such institutions as Georgetown University, Instituto de Empresa, McGill University, Nanyang Technological University, National Taiwan University, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California/Davis, University of California Los Angeles, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, and University of Southern California. Students regularly present papers at national and regional conferences, and have papers accepted by major academic journals. Over the past five years, 99 percent of Smith’s PhD students have been successfully placed directly after they graduate—about 80 percent as tenure track assistant professors at accredited universities, and the rest as researchers in either private or governmental organizations.